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@trh
Yesterday I realized a discrepancy in the larger discourses around AI & blockchain respectively. With AI, everyone talks about the tech and how it’s going to change (already changing!) the way we work and live. There are questions about how it will be distributed and some about the eventual cost/revenue models. Usability, seamless day-to-day integration, and the labor impact are all foregone conclusions; it’s a wonder to come up with scenarios that AI won’t affect. With blockchain, they talk about the tech and how it’s going to change the infrastructure that we take for granted. They talk about hidden use cases — “no one will know they’re using a blockchain” — and how hard it is to use. As a technology, AI is invisible, but we see its impact; blockchain is *supposed* to be invisible, but it gets in its own way. Are we simply too early in the AI cycle, having seen such euphoria throughout the blockchain space a couple short years ago?
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Erik
@eriklarsson.eth
To me they're not really comparable. The promise of AI is, like you observed, already fulfilled, transforming life and work, with its integration assumed. With blockchain it's like its use cases are secrets waiting to be discovered. Much like mining ...
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@trh
That’s interesting, I see what you mean. The second-order effects will be truly wild, and several of them unpredictable (or, which of the predicted changes didn’t play out?).
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